Release Notes: September 17, 2023

Hello, 2.5.1!

Today, we're shipping three new releases:

It's been 2 months since the release of 2.5.0 RTM.

As always, we'd like to thank all the users who contributed to the success of xUnit.net through usage, feedback, and code contributions. 🎉

These release notes are a comprehensive list of changes from 2.5.0 to 2.5.1.

We have added the ability to pass configuration values via RunSettings (either via a RunSettings file, or via the command line with dotnet test). See the documentation for how to use this feature. xunit/visualstudio.xunit#378
BUG: Fixed an issue where sometimes you could not filter tests by FullyQualifiedName and/or DisplayName (during discovery). xunit/visualstudio.xunit#380
BUG: Fixed an issue where file copies of xunit.runner.utility.*.dll and xunit.runner.reporters.*.dll could overwrite versions being used by runner authors, which would manifest as runtime issues like missing method exceptions. Fixing this required IL merging the output so those two DLLs don't exist on disk any more in the final xunit.runner.visualstudio NuGet package. Note that we still ship and copy xunit.abstractions.dll because that DLL has been frozen in time since we shipped v2 2.0 of the core framework (in 2015); any copy operations would result in the same file. We cannot IL merge this dependency, because it's needed on disk so that it has the same identity in both the runner process and the AppDomain that's created to run .NET Framework tests. xunit/visualstudio.xunit#383